Sally Cockburn

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Sally Patricia Cockburn (born 1947) [1] is a mathematician whose research ranges from algebraic topology and set theory to geometric graph theory and combinatorial optimization. A Canadian immigrant to the US, she is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Hamilton College, and former chair of the mathematics department at Hamilton. [2] [3]

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Education and career

Cockburn is originally from Ottawa. She earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Queen's University in Ontario, in 1982 and 1984 respectively, [4] and also has a master's degree from the University of Ottawa. [3] She completed her Ph.D. in algebraic topology in 1991 from Yale University. Her dissertation, The Gamma-Filtration on Extra-Special P-Groups, was supervised by Ronnie Lee. [5]

She joined the Hamilton College faculty in 1991, and was promoted to full professor in 2014. [2] At Hamilton, she has also served as the coach for the college's squash team. [4]

Recognition

Cockburn won the 2014 Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America with Joshua Lesperance for their joint work, "deranged socks", on a variation of the problem of counting derangements. [4] [6]

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  1. Birth year from ISNI authority control file, accessed 2018-11-26.
  2. 1 2 Foster, Holly (October 27, 2014), "Three Promoted to Professor", News & Events, Hamilton College , retrieved 2018-11-04
  3. 1 2 "Sally Cockburn", Faculty directory, Hamilton College , retrieved 2018-11-04
  4. 1 2 3 "Deranged Socks", Allendoerfer Award citation, Mathematical Association of America , retrieved 2018-11-04
  5. Sally Cockburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "2014 Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards", Mathematics Magazine, 87 (4): 318–320, October 2014, doi:10.4169/math.mag.87.4.318, S2CID   218541212